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Hi, I am looking to find good examples of on-site sitemaps.

We already submit our XML sitemap regularly through GWMT but I now wonder if we still need an on-site sitemap, as we have about 30 static pages and 300+ Wordpress blogs which in a sense makes that a spammy page as it has too many links and a higher than average keyword density.

The reason I am looking for good examples is that I want to create a basic on-site sitemap that aids navigation but is styled to look ok as well.

The Solution I have in mind:

mydomain.com/link-example-one.php
mydomain.com/link-example-two.php
mydomain.com/liink-example-ten.php

mydomain.com/blog then links to my 300 WP blogs, broken down into chunks navigated by using breadcrumbs.

Will Google crawl this ok or should I stick to the current format listing ALL posts on one page?

Thanks

There was an updated Google PR yesterday

http://techwalls.com/blogging/google-pagerank-update-november-2011/

Great resources, thanks for sharing these and your opinion too.

It certainly seems to be an area of SEO where a period of testing is going to be required to get the best fit for us.

Hi, Happy Friday!

I was advised to look at the SEO strategy of a UK SEO company and copy a technique they used, however, I have doubts that this technique is any good.

So mydomain.com targets My Domain

For my main keyword phrase, I was told to place a link to a newly created inner page in my footer, targeting the main keyword and on this page, create unique content which points back to my homepage.

Now I also have mydomain.com/my-domain.php which has a link to mydomain.com with anchor text My Domain.

Based on the SEOMoz reports, this now seems to be Keyword Self Cannibalisation and I think that it is diluting link juice and the value of my SEO on my homepage for this term rather than helping.

Can you advise if this technique is wrong?

Hi, I have a UK website which was formerly ranked 1^st in Google.co.uk and .com for my keyword phrase and has recently slipped to 6^th in .co.uk but is higher in position 4 in Google.com.

I have conducted a little research and can’t say for certain but I wonder if it is possible that too many of my backlinks are US based and therefore Google thinks my website is also US based.

Checked Google WmT and we the geo-targeted to the UK. Our server is also UK based.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Thanks

Thanks! 301's it is then

Hi, I have a Wordpress SEO Question.

I ran the SEOMOZ checker on my website and it discovered roughly 70 of my 250 blogs had a URL length problem. I have removed the year and month from the WP structure as I read elsewhere that it is not important.

The blogs displayed as follows:

domain.com/blog/2011/02/contents-of-the-blog

and the new structure is:

domain.com/blog/contents-of-the-blog

I have resubmitted the new structure to Google Webmaster Tools XML and updating the on-page sitemap on my main site.

My blog was cached on 25^th October and seems to be caching every 7 days, my website cached on the 24th and I wonder if I should do any follow up work to ensure the content gets crawled properly.

a)      Individually 301 redirect the old URLs to the new.

b)      Individual Canonical links for each.

c)      Adding the old pages to the robots file and disallowing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.